2 Amendments of Linda McAVAN related to 2009/2108(INI)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Given the global character of biodiversity and ecosystems and their crucial role for the global objectives of sustainable development, reducing poverty and hunger and improving health and human well-being, is convinced that the future EU strategy should also step up EU international efforts to avert biodiversity loss; and therefore better contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015; (Biodiversity and ecosystem services are essential to the productivity of agriculture, forests, and fisheries. Degraded ecosystems make the poor more vulnerable to increased frequency and impact of droughts, floods, landslides and other natural disasters. Ensuring environmental sustainability is the seventh of the eight Millenium Development Goals)
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Expresses its concern about the failure to realise or even approach the global target to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, as defined at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002; and about the implications of the continuous biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and the 2015 objective of reducing poverty and hunger and improving health and human well- being; (Preserving ecosystem services and biodiversity also underlies the achievement of Millennium Development Goals. Biodiversity and ecosystem services are essential to the productivity of agriculture, forests, and fisheries. Degraded ecosystems make the poor more vulnerable to increased frequency and impact of droughts, floods, landslides and other natural disasters.)